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Time Travel Classroom: Historic Newspapers Online [Fall 2017]

Presentation providing an overview of The Portal to Texas History, with examples of resources available within the repository. It specifically focuses on newspapers and how to use them for historical context and primary source information.
Date: Autumn 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Training Games Program: A Method for Digitization Skills Refreshment and Certification

Presented at the 2016 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum. This presentation provides an overview of a pilot digitization skills training program for student assistants in the University of North Texas Libraries Digital Projects Lab
Date: November 8, 2016
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
System: The UNT Digital Library

Think Globally, Act Locally: How Working with DPLA has Improved Our Collections

Presented at the 2015 Digital Library Federation Forum as part of the panel, "Think Globally, Act Locally: How Working with DPLA has Improved Our Collections." This presentation provides an overview of how working as an aggregator for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has changed workflows related to digital collections for The Portal to Texas History.
Date: October 28, 2015
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia
System: The UNT Digital Library

Professional Opinion vs. User Directed Digitization, Round 1

Presented at the 2017 Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)Fest Conference. This lightning round presentation shares the results of a web survey of DPLA partners' methods and representation practices of scrapbooks and plans for usability studies.
Date: April 20, 2017
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
System: The UNT Digital Library

Packaging Twitter Data for the Repository

Presentation within a panel on social media during the Third International Workshop on Web Archiving and Digital Libraries at the 2016 Joint Conferece for Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses the inclusion of twitter data within the UNT Data Repository.
Date: June 23, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

End of Term Web Archive: The What, The Why, The How

Presentation for Data Rescue Denton. This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term Archive project, with a comparison of the 2008, 2012, and 2016 harvests.
Date: May 20, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Authorities: UNT Libraries Digital Collections

Presentation for the 2017 meeting of the IMLS Shareable Authorities Forum. This presentation provides an in-depth look at institutional practices regarding authorities at University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: April 11, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

End of Term Web Archive--2008, 2012, 2016

Presentation for the 2017 UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term Archive project, including updates and challenges from the 2016 harvest.
Date: May 19, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

I am not a photographer. One librarian's journey toward understanding FADGI, image quality, and digitization best practices

Presentation at the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation provides an overview of site visits from over a dozen digitizing institutions across the country, including common tools used and best practices.
Date: May 25, 2017
Creator: Willis, Shannon
System: The UNT Digital Library

TRAIL @ UNT: Update

Presentation for the 2017 Technical report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) Annual Meeting. This presentation provides an update on the TRAIL Collection at UNT Libraries, including current metadata remediation initiatives.
Date: May 9, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Rosenbeck, Craig
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lessons Learned in Creating New Digital Libraries Interfaces

Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses lessons learned from the UNT Libraries redesign of two digital library interfaces: The Portal to Texas History and the UNT Digital Library.
Date: May 25, 2017
Creator: Hicks, William & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Replicating Processes: Testing the Project Points System at UNT Digital Projects

Presentation at the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation describes the replication of a points system used by Northwestern University's Digital Media Services department to better understand lab resources and capacity within the UNT Digital Projects Lab.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
System: The UNT Digital Library

Developing the DPLA Texas Service Hub, v.2. A collaboration to build the next generation aggregator for Texas

Presentation sharing the goals and mission of a pilot between the University of North Texas and the Texas Digital Library to develop a prototype of a new service hub for Texas to provide metadata from collections across the state to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
Date: May 25, 2017
Creator: Park, Kristi L.; Steans, Ryan; Halbert, Martin; Hiott, Judith; Woodward, Nick & Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library

Developing an Outreach Plan for UNT Scholarly Works

Presentation for the 2016 Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management Conference, discussing the details of how an outreach plan was created for the UNT Scholarly Works collection using institutional data to identify gaps in university participation.
Date: November 16, 2016
Creator: Andrews, Pamela & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Expanding the ETD Collection to Capture More Complete Contents of Student Works

Presentation for the 2016 US Electronic Theses and Dissertation Association Conference describing the use of additional repository collections to capture supplemental works and make visible the labor of producing a thesis or dissertation.
Date: September 26, 2016
Creator: Andrews, Pamela
System: The UNT Digital Library

Building an Online Academic Profile

Presentation for the Toulouse Graduate School workshop series discussing online academic profiles.
Date: October 25, 2016
Creator: Andrews, Pamela
System: The UNT Digital Library

After the Harvest: Preservation, Access, and Researcher Services for the 2016 End of Term Archive

This presentation discusses the End of Term Archive and methods for identifying and selecting in-scope content (including using registries, indices, and crowdsourcing URL nominations ["seeds"] through a web application called the URL Nomination Tool), new strategies for capturing web content (including crawling, browser rendering, and social media tools), access models including both an online portal as well as research datasets for use in computational analysis, and preservation data replication between partners using new export APIs and experimental tools developed as part of the IMLS-funded WASAPI project.
Date: December 13, 2016
Creator: Bailey, Jefferson; Grotke, Abigail & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Trends in Digital Newspaper Delivery: Leveraging existing resources, collaborations, and interoperability in the libraries community

This presentation reflects on the latest efforts toward improving the digital delivery of "hyperlocal" news in libraries, followed by open discussion, with a focus on multi-institutional collaborations, leveraging existing platforms and resources, and interoperability via IIIF for digital newspapers.
Date: December 12, 2016
Creator: Rabun, Sheila; Estlund, Karen & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

DIY API: A Sierra-Based, Homegrown Catalog API

This presentation with notes provides an overview of the development process for building a local API using Sierra catalog data. This overview includes a discussion of terms, history of the project, and example applications.
Date: March 2016
Creator: Thomale, Jason
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tracking on the TRAIL: Digitizing the Technical Report Archive and Image Library, Considerations in the Digital Workflow

This presentation discusses the workflow of the Technical report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) being processed at the University of North Texas Digital Projects Lab.
Date: July 25, 2014
Creator: Fulton, Lee & Montez, Ashley
System: The UNT Digital Library

Making the Most Out of Collaboration: Partnerships & Grant Applications for Long-Term Preservation

This presentation discusses the collaboration between Tarleton Library and Stephenville Public Library for a grant to digitize two early newspapers previously only available on microfilm, and collaborative partnership models for digital preservation of materials and grant applications.
Date: December 16, 2016
Creator: Castillo, Amy
System: The UNT Digital Library

What Can We Learn From a Statewide Collection of Newspaper PDFs?

Presentation for the 2016 IFLA News Media Satellite Meeting. This presentation examines the statewide collection of newspaper PDFs through the Texas Digital Newspaper Program at UNT to support preservation and access planning at UNT Libraries.
Date: August 11, 2016
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Faculty Analysis of Scholarly Works

This presentation provides a breakdown of current faculty contributions to the UNT Scholarly Works collection by department, tenure-status, and involvement with non-traditional works such as Honors College collaborations and patents.
Date: August 5, 2016
Creator: Andrews, Pamela & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Standardizing Quality Control of Images

This presentation contains an overview of how the UNT Libraries Digital Project Unit created a quality control rubric to assess partner-contributed images against department standards.
Date: July 22, 2016
Creator: Willis, Shannon
System: The UNT Digital Library